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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

Benjamin Carson

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Government People Suppose
If you’ve had a bumper crop, you don’t owe me triple tithes. And if you’ve had no crops at all, you don’t owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Bumper Fair Own Something Triple
It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Come Helping Matter Others Recognize
It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Important People Risk
You know, I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Issues People Thinking
I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Conservative Sense Thinking
An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Helping Knowledge Learning Others
I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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Fruit Harvest Labor
There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Physicians Reason Scientist
I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced…I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Community Country Peaceful People Person Religion
Under Islamic Law, homosexuals – men and women alike – must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Homosexual Law Men Religion
If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Basketball Football Inspirational
And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Care Correctness Crazy Government
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Culture Obsession Security
I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Helping Others People Quickly Thinking
When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Big Cell Enrich Feed Learning Nbillion Other Think

Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

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